Around 2004, my freshman year in high school, this new craze called Myspace swept through what seemed like all of existence. Previously, social networking platforms like AIM and BlackPlanet existed but none could compare to the pull of Myspace and a guy who unconditionally befriended you named Tom (I always thought people who deleted him as a friend were ungrateful and trifling.) It was nucking futs, people becoming famous who didn't even have talent. Only thousands of liberated pictres for men of all creeds to gaze upon (i.e. Tila Tequila). Remember steadily refreshing your page hoping you had a new comment? I remember people used to treat their pages like wardrobes, steadily trying to get the latest layout and keep it fresh with new music. Myspace had people in the 'hood and 3rd world countries unknowingly doing HTML. And everything was going well until club promoters FUKKED IT UP! Then Facebook emerged and it was all formal. You know, minimal bathroom pics and what not, only adding people you know (defeating a upside in social media), gangbangers using their "government names" (breaking one of the 'hood rules fasho).... no layouts. Humanity's trendy nature made Facebook the most visited site for like 2 years or something crazy. Literally everybody and their mommas were on Facebook like crack in the 80's. And in not so rare cases grandmommas and great-grandmommas. I had my momma as a friend on Facebook until she got the boot for criticizing some of my choice words in my status updates. I also added my little sister (the one whose birthday I missed in Lock Me Up. Throw Away the Weekend, also on my blog) for a while until she started showing my momma my wall. Facebook is grown-up friendly and i'm NOT down for that. And how the hell did Facebook get their own movie? I bet a movie about the Craigslist killer would be way doper... somebody get me Quentin. But as of late Facebook's been losing momentum. How? Hella irritating automatic horoscope updates (it seems everyone's a Pisces these days), breaches of accounts (some serious, some just the result of you not logging out), and guess what? The g'damn club promoters and making a comeback! I'm already over it, I've decided to give my undivided social media attention to Twitter. The same thing 30 million people will be doing in 4-6 months when they find out Twitter is the new hotness. And how does Tumblr work? I wonder what's after that, will club promoters do what no man has done before and realize how to expand their network through LinkedIn? I'm outta here.... @bionic_tbh
lol! That's how I feel about FB, i've had an account for a long time when it was college students only and it was great! You could get a hold of a classmate and do school stuff without dumb applications. But know with the tween, teen, and everyone else they are on the verge of destroying it just like everything else. I guess I will be moving toward my twitter and linkedin account instead.
ReplyDeleteEverybody and their momma was on it like crack in the 80's? Sounds like a Richard Pryor joke. Not sure how to use Facebook to spread my name/"brand" though.
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